Free and with good visibility for well-known repositories (BioRχiv, ChemRxiv)
Supported by many publishers
Possible to revise the manuscript and thus to upload accepted manuscript
Possible to link final paper to preprint
Authors retain copyright
Authors establish precedence
Green/gold/diamond
The license impacts what people can do with your work, e.g.
CC BY: Reusers can distribute
if attribution given
remixed, adapted, built upon
including for commercial use
CC BY-NC-ND: Reusers can copy and distribute the work
if attribution given
in unadapted form only
for non-commercial use only
The license impacts the publishing costs a.k.a APC
Publishers may require the addition of disclaimers on top of accepted/published manuscript depositions
Findable
F1. (Meta)data are assigned a globally unique and persistent identifier
F2. Data are described with rich metadata (defined by R1)
F3. Metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data they describe
F4. (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource
Accessible
A1. (Meta)data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardised communications protocol
A1.1 The protocol is open, free, and universally implementable
A1.2 The protocol allows for an authentication and authorisation procedure, where necessary
A2. Metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available
Interoperable
I1. (Meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation.
I2. (Meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles
I3. (Meta)data include qualified references to other (meta)data
Reusable
R1. (Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes
R1.1. (Meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license
R1.2. (Meta)data are associated with detailed provenance
R1.3. (Meta)data meet domain-relevant community standards
Couperin consortium [FR]: Negociates on behalf of public entities for publication access/publishing costs (among other things)
Preprint repositories
Post-publishing repositories
Licensing
Creative Commons [EN]: Choose what people can do with your work